On Jul 25, 8:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a situation where I have a file that contains text similar to:
>
> myValue1 = contents of value1
> myValue2 = contents of value2 but
> with a new line here
> myValue3 = contents of value3
>
> My first approach was to open the file, use readlines to split the
> lines on the "=" delimiter into a key/value pair (to be stored in a
> dict).
>
> After processing a couple files I noticed its possible that a newline
> can be present in the value as shown in myValue2.
>
> In this case its not an option to say remove the newlines if its a
> "multi line" value as the value data needs to stay intact.
>
> I'm a bit confused as how to go about getting this to work.
>
> Any suggestions on an approach would be greatly appreciated!
Check the length of the list returned from split; this allows
your to append to the previously extracted value if need be.
import StringIO
import pprint
buf = """\
myValue1 = contents of value1
myValue2 = contents of value2 but
with a new line here
myValue3 = contents of value3
"""
mockfile = StringIO.StringIO(buf)
record=dict()
for line in mockfile:
kvpair = line.split('=', 2)
if len(kvpair) == 2:
key, value = kvpair
record[key] = value
else:
record[key] += line
pprint.pprint(record)
# lstrip() to remove newlines if needed ...
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Hope this helps,
Steven
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